I've managed to get separate voices using abcm2ps (note: I'm not sure if
this is standard abc, but abc2midi doesn't like it). Here's what I do,
and it comes out quite nice IMHO:
X:9
T:McLeod's Reel
M:2/4
L:1/16
%%staves [1 2]
U:M=!tenuto!
K:G
V:1
|:BA|.G2Mg2 edeg|B2{c}BA B2BA|.G2Mg2 edeg|A2{B}AG AcBA|
.G2Mg2 edeg|B2{c}BA B2d2|e2>f2 edef|gedB A2::
BA|GABc dBGA|BcBA BcBA|GABc dBGB|A2{B}AG AcBA|
GABc dBGA|BcBA B2d2|e2>f2 edef|gedB A2:|
V:2
|:BA|GDGB c2ce|dBGE D2BA|GDGB c2ce|dcAF D2FA|
GDGB c2ce|dBGE D2B2|c2>A2 c2c2|B2G2 F2::
D2|B2G2 BGD2|G2d2 B2D2|B2G2 BGD2|dcAD F2c2|
B2G2 BGD2|G2d2 gdB2|c2>G2 c2c2|B2G2 F2:|
I've found that the first voice determines how everything lines up in
the output. If you screw up in the second voice, as far as measure
lengths or line lengths, Voice 1 is the "master", and abcm2ps tries to
do the best it can, often with surprising ugly results.
Atte's abc renderer (http://atte.dyndns.dk/lovsang/input.php) does a
very nice job with this (obviously he uses abcm2ps) whereas the one on
concertina.net (http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html) doesn't
look very nice.
Again, I dunno if my abc is standard, but it makes pretty output, which
is my goal anyway.
-Chris
Jeff Bigler wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:20:54 -0500
> > From: Christopher Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I prefer abcm2ps, as it allows me more control of the output (IMHO).
>
> On the subject of abcm2ps, can anyone here tell me how to make it output
> two voices onto separate staves? abc2ps does this with the following
> command:
>
> %%staves [(1 2)]
>
> but even after reading the source code for abcm2ps I haven't found
> anything similar. Am I just missing this, or is there in fact no way to
> do it?
>
> Jeff
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